The Los Angeles National Cemetery hosted its first public Memorial Day event since 2019, after halting for the pandemic. The community streamed through the rolling lawns of white headstones to honor loved ones and other veterans.
Jack Knight, 85, who served four years in the Army, returns to the cemetery every Memorial Day, singing a song he wrote, “Hero in My Eyes,” to visitors.
The program also included remarks by Maj. Gen. Evan Dertian, commander of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, music by the 300th Army Band and historical reenactments.
Jack Knight, 85, an Army veteran, walks through Los Angeles National Cemetery on Memorial Day.
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Mounted buffalo soldiers deliver the presentation of colors before the Memorial Day ceremony.
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A visitor stops to take a picture.
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Some visitors left flowers.
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“He is so missed. I never thought I’d miss someone so much,” Virginia Morrow of Long Beach said of Albert, her late husband. They were married 48 years.
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A young girl at the cemetery.
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